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I’m in the mood for linearts this weekend! XD

Both pages are from this week’s Bleach Chapter 318.

Probably gonna colour the one with Shuuhei and Kira next weekend, if I have the time, but I don’t think I’ll colour Ulquiorra. Unless I’m really really bored.

Use if you want, but be sure to credit me. Oh, and I’d like to see the outcome.

I actually finished this yesterday. But didn’t have the time to post it here.

It’s a panel from Naruto Chapter 408, Page 06. I just knew I had to colour it the moment I read the Chapter. Because I think Akatsuki Cloaks are cool.
Much thanks to Shade for cleaning the panel.

Overall, I’m not too happy because I think the background is a failure. It didn’t turned out the way I had wanted it to. I think the team turned out okay though. I’ve always liked colouring people as compared to background. I pretty much suck at background.

Oh, and I’ve also created a DeviantArt account. Just because.

Notice that my Username for DA is Ravavyre but my LiveJournal’s is Ravavire…? Lol, I wanted Ravavyre for LJ too, but the initial account I created with ‘vyre’ was…..I dunno….something wasn’t quite right…..Even though I deleted it, I have to wait for 1 month before that name is truly deleted, and then I can change my Username.

Added this to the Gallery.

Whipped these up about a couple of hours ago. I wanted to relax for a bit before going full throttle on my ‘revision’ for Malay Oral next Tuesday.

Click on the icon for Textless versions. Believe me, they are better off without texts.

Soul Eater

Nabari no Ou

Code Geass

Well, only made 5. Ran out of inspiration.

A pity WordPress doesn’t have a feature whereby there’s an icon next to a post. I would really love that. I’m thinking of moving over to LiveJournal, but I dunno….. WordPress still seems okay….

Added these to the Gallery.

There’s no interesting pages or panels to colour from Naruto’s latest chapter, again. So, in order to keep boredom at bay, I decided to do some photoshop-related work. Seeing as how I didn’t have any motivation or inspiration to create a signature/banner or an avatar/icon, I coloured a page from one of Naruto’s old chapter covers instead.

I was and am still kinda bored, so I’ll include all the different stages.

Lineart by Shade (MangaHelpers).

Stage 1 - Stage 2 - Stage 3
Stage 4 - Stage 5 - Stage 6

Final Outcome:

I removed some parts of the original background because it was too troublesome to colour. I added a wood texture to the fence to make it look more realistic and I think it worked. I tried soft-shading for the metal protector and I think the result wasn’t too bad. Other than that, nothing much can be said about this.

I may try soft-shading on this piece if I have the mood and time. Because soft-shading using a mouse can be quite a hassle, especially for a beginner.

Added this to the Gallery.

First and foremost, I don’t own these Fanart. I took them from DeviantArt.

I was so bored because there was nothing to do and there were no interesting panels or pages to colour from the original manga chapter, be it Naruto or any other manga. I had to wait till Friday or Saturday before new chapters are released, so in the meantime, I thought I’d colour something else.

You may notice that the ‘layout’ of credits on them are a bit different from my previous works. That’s because I thought that I should differentiate Fanart from the original manga panels or pages. Oh, and I’m using a different image hosting site. Imageshack dies on me sometimes, so maybe this would be better.

Original Art: Here

Very anime-like, I’d say. I think it looks okay. The background was pretty much random, but then again, all of my colourations have random backgrounds. These images are in JPEG format because the PNG files were too big, so it’ll look a bit blurred.

Original Art: Here

My first Chibi colouring! I liked how this turned out. Especially the background. Okay, so I googled the image…but at least it fits the picture. Oh, and I changed the original speech bubble to “Dattebayo!” instead of “To Attack!” because then, the background wouldn’t fit.

I have a couple more linearts stored in my computer. I may or may not colour them, depending on my mood.

Oh, and I’m still dwelling on whether or not I should buy a tablet. If I buy it, then I could give soft-shading a go, but there’s also the possibility that the outcome might not be nice and then the money would go to waste.

Added these to the Gallery.

Got home. Went to MangaShare. Downloaded Naruto Chapter 402. Was bored. Went to MangaHelpers. Lineart was available (Credits to Ziaja). So why not colour?

So here’s another Sasuke colouring (from Chapter 402, Page 17)……With his new Sharingan!!

Nothing much to say about this. But I think the shading of the hair is too dark, you can hardly see it (But I think that’s because I added a layer on top of it to not make the lines look too sharpened). The background is plain because I have no idea what to do with it. I added the glow to the sharingan because otherwise it’ll look really plain. Overall, this piece is pretty simple and plain.

I think I should buy a tablet so that I can try doing soft-shading instead of cell-shading, but I don’t know whether to buy it now, or after ‘O’ Levels or something.

Anyways, I really really hope that this chapter concludes the Sasuke arc and the plot will finally move on.

Oh, one more thing, Sasuke’s new sharingan looks so weird, like a flower or an atom or something. I think Kakashi’s Mangekyou Sharingan looks the nicest, followed by Itachi, Madara and then Sasuke.

Added this to the Gallery.

While I was waiting for my mother to finish checking a Malay Paper that I did, I had a sudden inspiration to create a signature. Well, I was browsing a forum and came across a signature that looks nice, so that’s where the inspiration came from.

Rendering was troublesome and so was searching for a render on the net, so I just used what renders I have.

Render taken from PlanetRenders.

Creating this was much more troublesome than I originally thought. I had quite a few problems along the way, the blending of the render with the background was especially troublesome, but I somehow managed to pull through.

Here’s the gist of the steps.
The background is mostly made up of a couple of Grunge brushes with distorted images of the render on Color Dodge on top of the brushes. Duplicates of the render on top of one another with different filters and on Overlay at different opacities and added a lighting effect. The first version was finished with a Color Balance adjustment layer. The second version also had a Color Balance adjustment layer, but underneath that layer was a white background set on Saturation.

I’m quite pleased with the overall outcome. It wasn’t really what I had in mind but it turned out pretty nicely. I’ve improved, I’d say. But that may just be luck.

Added this to the Gallery.

Well, time to study…..again.

Coloured this one pretty fast. There was nothing much to do today (I didn’t go out today, so couldn’t buy the game…) and coincidentally, the cover page of this week’s Naruto was rather nice to colour. In addition to that, there was already a lineart available. So might as well colour it.

Lineart by Shade. Much thanks to him.

Here’s my colouration, featuring; Itachi, Sasuke and Madara Uchiha (otherwise known as Tobi).

I prefer version one to version two. I wanted to give version two a blue-ish hue, but it didn’t turn out as nice as I pictured it. Still looks okay though.

I hope Kishimoto will move on to the next part of the story already. The recent chapters about Sasuke, Itachi and Uchiha stuff are all so boring….

Hmm….nothing much to say….

Added these to the Gallery.

Well, today’s Marking Day and school’s out, so what did I do? Some people may spend the day hanging out with friends, watching movies, sleep, play games, watch anime, read manga, etc etc. As for me, as much as I’d like to watch anime and read manga, there’s really no new releases to watch. Conveniently, I had a sudden inspiration and motivation to create some avatars. So, I spent almost the entire day creating icons.

Click on the Avatars/Icons for the textless versions.

Well, that’s all for now. Who knew creating one avatar could take quite long (about 15-30 minutes for one).

Credits goes to Minitokyo for the Stock Images. Much thanks to the users there. There’s just too much to credit individually, so I hope crediting them generally will do.

I’ve created a Page for Avatars/Icons at the Gallery. Already added these there.

Well, I did say I was going to colour this page after the exams are over. I would have finished and posted it yesterday if not for the Inter-Class Floorball Competiton. Well, that doesn’t matter anymore, at least I finished it.

I won’t post all the stages like I did with my previous colouring because it’s too troublesome.

But might as well share the lineart. It took me about 3 hours to clean the page, especially the pants because it’s too black and I had to guess where the line should be. Hope it doesn’t look too off.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Chapter 191: Featuring Tsuna & Reborn

Two versions once again. I really don’t know which I prefer. The first one looks simple and nice but a bit too plain. The second one blends in pretty well with the background but some parts look a little too dark, even though that was kinda intentional since I wanted the light source to be from the top right-hand corner. But still, both are okay.

I debated on whether to colour Reborn’s hair black or brown because I didn’t know which would be better; his original hair colour or Tsuna’s as he is impersonating him. I ended up using his original hair colour. I had to scale down the image quite a bit because the original file size was too big. The original colouring was the size of the lineart. I spent about another 3-4 hours colouring this.

Anyway, you would have noticed that Lambo and I-Pin are missing from the coloured version. Lol, that’s because I thought that they were “in the way”. I wanted it to just be Tsuna & Reborn, Student & Tutor. Yeah well, and also because I was too lazy to add them as well.

Added this to the Gallery too.

Well, now that that’s done, time to create avatars.